Crown Point Mine (Aurelia Crown Mine; Crown Power Mine), Railroad Creek, Railroad Creek District, Chelan Co., Washington, USA

MoS₂

Crystal System: hexagonal
Colour: black, lead gray, or gray
Habitus: hexagonal tabular, lamellar aggregates, foliaceous
Lustre: metallic
Hardness: 1 - 1½
Cleavage: perfect on {0001}
Density: 4.998 g/cm³ 
Origin and geological occurrence: it typically occurs in high-T hydrothermal veins and in disseminated ore deposits of the porphyry type. In contact metamorphic deposits hosted in marbles, and in pegmatites, granites, and aplites.

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Samples:

	2.9 Molybdenite Massive aggregate in quartz #sulfides
	2.24 Molybdenite Lead-grey foliated aggregate. #economic minerals